Retaining device for studs, pins, &amp;c.



R. H. LOW. RETAINING DEVIOE ron BTUDS, PINS, aw.

LPPLIOATION FILED APB. 33.1907.

Patented Jan. 5. 1909.

ROBERT HENRY LOW, OF BLACKHEATH, ENGLAND.

RETAINING DEVICE FOR STUDS, PINS, 860.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

Application filed April 23, 1907. Serial No. 369,758.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT HENRY Low, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at 4 West Grove Terrace, The Point, Blackheath, in thecounty of Kent, England, gentleman, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Retaining Devices for Studs, Pins, and the Like, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a retaining device for use with studs, pinsand the like, and has for its object to prevent such articles fromaccidentally being removed from or falling out of the button hole oraperture or fabric in which they are placed. As is well known, itfrequently happens, for example in the case of a collar stud, that inremoving the collar from the neck of the shirt, the stud will becomedetached from the shirt, or if the material of the neck of the shirt issoft or the button hole torn, or enlarged the stud will frequentlybecome dislodged after removing the collar, or in the absence of thesame, thereby causing great inconvenience, loss of time and in manyinstances the stud, which may be valuable. Furthermore, the collar mayretain the stud and force it from the neck of the shirt causingconsiderable discomfort by becoming disconnected from the shirt.Similarl shirt front studs often are lost, owing to the backs or headsbeing able to slip through the holes.

In order to overcome the above objections I provide a device which looksthe stud to the fabric it is inserted in, whence it cannot accidentallybecome dislodged.

In order that the said invention may be more clearly understood andreadily carried into effect 1 will now describe the same more fully withreference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 shows one formof device embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 shows the samein side view when in operative position. Fig. 3 shows the device appliedto a shirt ready for locking the studs thereto. Fig. 4 shows the samestuds locked in the shirt. Figs. 5 and 6 show the device used forlooking a collar to the shirt as well as the stud.

According to the said invention, one form of the device comprises a diskor plate A of any suitable material and of any convenient shape orconformation. In this disk an a erture is made sufficiently largetoadmit t e head of a stud, but not large enough for the back of thesame. The said aperture is provided with a diaphragm or layer of indiarubber, or other appropriate flexible material B, in which an aperture Cis made so that the head of a stud may be forced comparatively easilybut not too freely through the same. Attached to the disk is a tongue orstri D of india rubber or other convenient flexib e material, or ofmetal, provided with an aperture E for use as hereinafter explained. Tolook a stud in, for instance, the neck of a shirt, the head of the studF is inserted through the diaphragm B of the disk A and through the studhole so that the disk lies between the material of the shirt neck H andthe back J of the stud. The said tongue I) is then passed over thematerial of the shirt neck to the other side and forced over the head ofthe stud, so that the stud cannot be removed from the neck of the shirtwithout disengaging the tongue from the head, while the back isprevented from being pulled through the shirt neck by reason of thedisk.

It will be readily understood that this simple device can be utilizedfor many articles in the nature of studs, and is capable of manymodifications, as to size, shape, material and methods of attachment,without departing from the scope of the invention. It can also beutilized to look not only the stud to the shirt or the like but also tolock the collar K thereto by roviding a longer tongue and forming aditional apertures G therein so that the tongue, after passing over thehead of the stud to lock in the shirt, can be passed under the edges ofthe collar and again secured over the head of the stud on the otherside. This arrangement is shown in Fig. 2 and Figs. 5 and 6 and in Fig.5 the device is shown as also used as a tie clip for preventing the tieriding up the collar.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesis 1. In combination, as a stud retaining device, a perforate baseplate, means for retaining a stud therein and flexible means for lockinsaid plate, with the stud, to an article of clot 'ng.

2. In combination as a stud retaining defor locking the same andthe studto an arti- 10 Vice, a perforate base plate, a perforate diacleofclothing. phragm therein for retaining a stud, and In testimony whereofI afYX my signature means for locking said plate and its stud, to inpresence of two Witnesses.

an article of clothing.

3. In combination as a stud retaining de- 7 ROBERT HENRY Vice, aperforate base plate, a perforate fiexi- Witnesses: ble'diaphragrntherein for retaining a stud, HAROLD W. LAKE,

and a perforate tongue attached to said plate T. SELBY WARDLE.

